What's wrong with the U.S.A.?

[Ed W]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

Ed, this may be a little off topic, but you wouldn't happen to now work for a company in Tulsa that has a branch in Grove City PA, would you?

Nope, the company I work for these days is kinda fond of having 12,000 foot runways nearby.  Grove City does have an airport, but you wouldn't want to land a big commercial jet there - unless you really HAD to!

I worked for GTI Corporation back there, in a factory that made electronic parts.  It didn't pay much and it wasn't steady, but the cost of living was fairly low since it's a rural area.  And I spent a lot of time hunting, fishing, skiing, and just generally wandering around outdoors.  I was single at the time, too.

But getting married and having a family to look after changes EVERYTHING.  I'm not looking back wistfully at my life there, 'cause I wouldn't trade my wife and kids for any of it.

...and yes, this is wandering seriously off topic.  If you want to continue the discussion, let's take it to email.

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Having spent 3 years as a union organizer those posting seems to think that the good fairy gave them vacations with pay, paid holidays, health insurance, overtime after a 40 hour week and the other benefits that they now enjoy.  

Be admitted to the CEO office and be seated and tell him that his employees, after working for a year should be entitle to a week's paid vacation.  Watch how the red color of arrogance moves up his face.  

The coal miners union, through John Lewis was the first to get these installed, along with safety standards, paid vacation that all workers today take for granted.  

Then go back a month later and tell the CEO that when the business closes for a holiday the workers are short that money while their expenses go on and to level the field, by payment for the 7 holidays it would lower the burden on them if they were paid the regular pay for those holidays.  Tell him that like Wilson said "For those who submit to authority should have voice in their own governing."  

I operated a business for some 40 years and when I ran an add in the paper for help. I took applications from several persons which were placed in a file.  Although you read an add for a job opening does not mean that there is an available job but they are taking applications to fill a job coming up.

I have been on both sides of the fence and the grass is not any greener on either side but the working people enjoy today a battle victory that was fought a half century ago.  No one can say that these benefits would have been given to the working people had they not been ask for as a group.  The soap box is now empty.